22:00 it's funny how you blame the fact you got wasted in that battle on the enemy having guns, you just waltzed straight into the middle of them with a horse like a noob and they pulled out their swords and melleed you lol, what did you expect to happen?

I always hated it when I'm trying to play a medieval game and they add guns, cannons, etc. Completely ruins the environment.
One of my biggest peeves with Warband was that there's not enough detail in troop control. You should be able to order formations, get bonuses for a flanking cavalry charge, etc. Did they improve those things in this expansion?

+Holy Cheese Sorry to bring up an old comment thread, but Reddit still works for that. Each time TB comes out with a video, the /r/cynicalbrit subreddit will have a specific thread for that video, so you can talk about the video still.

Love this series - and Fire and Sword is much more interesting than the "fantasy" version from Warband. And renaissance Eastern Europe is a very interesting setting.
I'm hoping this might be my new "historical" strategy game after Total War let me down with Rome II.

Dying super quickly like around 21:00 did happen in Warband and the original, but only when you were up against Khergit horsemen with spears. A good stab with a spear at full charging speed was a guaranteed kill. Then again, spears are only good when charging in the first place, so they're balanced in their own way.

The reason this game is awesome is because of the fact it takes place in 17th century Europe, which isn't very common in video games besides a scattered few pirate games and such
I really hope Game companies would realize the potential for periods such as the thirty years wars, English Civil War, the wars of religion. or the Deluge

Come on - Total Buiscuit - don't be a wuss, just because you can't single handedly charge and kill an entire army armed with muskets...
Gunpowder makes this game much more interesting. Using grenades against massed opponents in a siege, for instance :)

+Kody Prunella but he always says at least one thing that`s why he`s the CYNICAL brit (plz not i have no idea what that means except probably something along the lines of sarcastic haterish person in a nicer way)

I have all the 3 games and my personal favorite is warband its a upgraded version of the original game the thing i hated about fire and sword was that you could mostly only use mercenary it lost the big unit upgrade system from warband an the original did have

Not that you'd normally want to pay more, but that this latest M&B is cheaper than the original one from 2008... well, it is telling. Either the game itself is not up to snuff or it solely did not pan out as they had hoped.
Guns actually do seem interesting... if you want to wipe out large chunks of armies, it would seem the way about it here is not to charge in headlong but to get a proper good rifle, invest primarily in firearms and pick foes off from a distance as you ride a horse and keep away from danger. Much like the mongols of old, 'cept with a gun.
Someone mentioned grenades during crowded siege events, that ought to be fun.

If someone would want a mount and blade game i would recommend getting warband and not with fire and sword. The guns arent that interesting and the game has taken out deatures from warband. Such as starting your own kingdom. Warband is just better in almost every part.

Why the hell are people arguing and comparing the Mount&Blade serie to the Elder Scrolls serie? They are nothing alike exept for the fact that they are both RPG's and the personal combat system is pretty similar.
Might as well compare Portal to the Tomb Raider games because they are both puzzle games.

Actually guns exist in the original as well, there's just no way to get them or at least the skill in firearms exists.
My favorite mod for the original, Sword of Damocles, had a few units with guns and that blended really well, but I guess that most units having guns would definitely change the gameplay.

Normally I'm not judgemental with games.
I give them time, I look deep into them.
But when a serf with a shootystick headshots me from half a map away I get pissed. I keep playing.
When it repeats itself, I get angry.
When a herd of plebeians with boomsticks murder my heavily-trained warriors despite only a fraction of their countless shots don't miss...I quit. I'm sorry. Get Warband.

The gun system as I see it here reminds me a bit of the Brytenwalda mod when you deal with Welsh or other missile-based enemies. Whenever you come close they're like "Attacking us? Cool, here, have a few million javelins to the the face" and avoiding the downpour of those is kind of the difference between you getting completely owned, or you and your army mopping them up without much effort after they run out of ammo.

+BJkreulach
You can be Imprisoned for Internet Piracy. The owner of Piratebay has had Legal Troubles for years. Anton Vickerman, creator of website surfthechannel, had been sentenced to four years in prison in the U.K for hosting illegal copies of films and TV programmes. Do some research and please Educate yourself next time instead of spouting off Rhetorical nonsense..

It's not only expanding the game by a new weaponry.
It also uses a Polish literature called "with Fire and Sword" as a background story. It's a book based on the Polish history, so plese don't be so ignorant about it.

I think guns add another dimension of strategy. It isn't really as bad as people might think as you can't just shoot continuously. You have to be sort of close to get the one shot kill and they take forever to reload, so it isn't really that imbalanced.

Yeah, from my experience in Warband you did NOT mess with deserters or it was game over for you, buddy... They are always super well equipped from their time in the army, so unless you have better stuff than them or simply more brute force, it's lights out for you and your men!

OH MY GOSH! OHMY GOSH! OMGGGG!!!!!!!! LITHUANIA!!!!! It's so awesome that it is in an EPIC GAME LIKE THIS!!! even though we are such a small country (well duh, our monarch was a douchebag -_-) YAYAYAY! CHEES FOR LITHUANIA! ^^

Makes me wonder what happened, he seemed to like this game, now acts like Torn banner studios has paid him to advertise chivalry 'medieval' warfare and tell that it's the best medieval 'simulator'..Yeah right.

+Crystal Honecker Hmmm, not that terrible for my first try. Also (now I'm not in troll mode anymore), how am I common-folk, and with a sad and pathetic life? I actually have had a good one, possibly better then yours. I have an expensive gaming computer, lots of friends (which were the one who put me up to trolling you), money (I'm actually serious). How do I have a sad and pathetic life? Trolls do things for a laugh (some are plain mean though), I've been bored these coupled of days because there haven't been any games I haven't been bored with (if you could share some it would be much obliged although you probably won't ^^), and I decided to cheer myself up messing with you and it worked I laughed when I read this comment of yours you though I was common-folk and slack-jawed. Ah, thank you for lightening my days for that I thank you. Now I guess I'll watch some VintageBeef or Quill18. If you want to keep making me laugh then thanks. Now back to trolling mode, also haven't you noticed I've been overusing parenthesis this whole comment (dunno why).
You see in my many days as a game programmer I have used and made sound applications and some pickup different sounds due to the technology that they are made. Now the developers of the game included different cursors and stuff for the game in order to be different, heck the UI is paler then before. So please stop making yourself look like a retard.

With Fire and Sword has more features out of the box, but what you see is basically what you get, since as before pretty much no one has bothered to mod for it.
It also vastly limits what you can do with your character since melee focus is basically worthless, where as a int/cha character will be extremely powerful and your PC shouldn't be anywhere near the action anyway due to how easily it is to get 1 shotted for most of the game, since they only need 9 str to use any gun which is automatically at full strength (still takes proficiency to hit anything, but that's easily farmed during sieges). Guns and bows are king in this game. With bows actually being the strongest weapons of all. Guns are nice in that they don't require any skill aside from a small amount of str to actually carry the weapon and are immediately powerful, but bows utterly blow them away by the end, same as Crossbows in Warband since WF&S guns are just Crossbows with greater range/less accuracy. Massive rate of fire, best bow has 2x the damage of the best gun after taking into account 10 power draw, near perfect accuracy, similar effective range, more then 2x the ammo per inventory slot can shoot fully backwards on a horse, instead of almost like with a carabine but with MUCH MUCH more damage and accuracy.

guns really aren't so game breaking, you just can't run directly at them thinking jesus will come down and redirect bullets, you need to flank while at the horseback as cavarly is supposed to, especially in that era..!
and circle a little instead ride in straight line (ingame)

If only Mount & Blade: Warband didn't have those terrible AI issues causing the AI Kings to indict their nobles for treason ever 30 damn seconds... I never even encountered a good mod solution to that, most "Fixes" disabled the ability outright, which is no fix in my opinion.
Here's to hoping M&B2: Bannerlord doesn't suffer from such a game-breaking issue. At the very least, we're back to medieval setting.

I got Warband during the sale for 10 bucks, and had 35 cents left in my wallet. I Ended up selling a load of stuff on the Steam market until I had the 2.49$ necessary to get this game while it was on sale. I basically got this game for free. Praise be to the Steam Summer Sales!

You can be imprisoned by suing you for theft.
And also, piratebay is loosing money to protect those pirateers, like yourself, and is lowering their barrier thus making your downloads visible. Yes, the Federal Agents are busy 'cause it's fairly easy to fine all the pirates around the world

Skyrim Copied A lot of stuff from mount and blade Horse combat was touted as a huge thing in the DLCs.. mount and blade did it first and better.. spears was another.. again mount and blade did it first.. The mount and blade series should get alot more attention than it gets.

Really? Mount and blade did horse combat first... Mount and blade did spears first... Try medieval Europe (I know they existed before that). Stop being like those people that say everything is a copy of minecraft.

At first I played this game to death, then about halfway through the Polish campaign the bugs began to come out. I succeeded in conquering the Khanate's cities, but I failed to capture all the generals and suddenly they all vanished from the map, keeping me from finishing the rebellion. I want to find the guys responsible for testing this game because there are so many bugs besides what I just said,